I have to blog on my phone these days, we just sold our computer. And honestly, I'd probably be too lazy to go sit at it and type when I can chill in bed while the kids nap. Blogging on my phone sucks though because I can't add pictures. How boring. And the mobile site for blogger is crappy and it's hard to scroll through and edit what I've written. So I don't. There used to be a blogger app for iPhones but apparently they deleted it.
ANYWAYS, having two kids is hard. Everyone reading this that has more than one kid is like, duh. 🙄 People told me it would be, but I thought to myself that Quinn was a really good girl and she usually listens and this baby won't be as hard as she was because I know what I'm doing more this time. Well, no. Quinn is still a good girl but she gets sassy when we don't pay attention to her. Those first few weeks I felt like a horrible mom because I was sending her to her room like 20 times a day because she wouldn't be quiet while I was trying to get Jameson to sleep. I had to get him to sleep or else he would get over tired and then I would be even more tired and grumpy the next day from getting up a million times in the night. Not a million but like three. And Quinn kept waking up at 6:00 am. He kept cat napping during the day so it felt like I'd spend my whole day rocking him to sleep and getting mad at Quinn for waking him up.
He sleeps better now and takes longer naps. And Quinn is learning to be a little quieter. The "sound sleeper" app is a huge help. It plays the blow dryer sound which puts him to sleep pretty quickly. And blocks out noise from Quinn that might startle him. As soon as he starts to yawn after he eats I swaddle him and start rocking him in the rocking chair. He stays awake but relaxed for 10-20 minutes and then he drifts off to sleep. He occasionally surprises me with a few 4 hour stretches of sleep at night. He was consistently waking up around 4:30 in the morning and then getting really restless but we put room darkening curtains up two nights ago and that has helped. He doesn't cry a whole lot, but he does make a lot of noise in his sleep. He grunts and squeaks. I don't even know how he makes the sounds he does. Sometimes he sound like what I imagine a baby seahorse might sound like. Actually, I am pretty sure seahorse don't make noise but that's what I think of.
When he was two weeks old, I was feeding him one day and Quinn decided to poop her pants at the same time.
Another day, he pooped while I was changing his diaper and it shot all over the changing table. I asked Quinn to bring me a plastic grocery bag from the kitchen. I didn't know if she knew where they were, but sometimes she surprises us. She brought me a big liner for the kitchen garbage. Then Jameson peed all over the wall. I told her to take the big bag back and get me a small one from the kitchen. She leaves and then I hear her grunting and struggling before she comes back in the room carrying the very full kitchen garbage can! I just laughed. Then she knocked it over. I laughed again and we got everything cleaned up with no permanent damage done to the carpet.
Quinn really likes her baby brother. She calls him "jamis" lol. Or "baby brother" or "little man." Yesterday she tried to put her toys in his mouth. I told her not to put things in his face so she puts her toys around him. She tries to pick him up which is terrifying so I can't leave them alone together. One of both of them is always in the bathroom with me while I shower.
Quinn is very girly. Her favorite colors are pink and purple. Her favorite outfit is her red Minnie Mouse shirt and a purple skirt. Color blocking is in, right? She has purple crocs that she loves and is always quick to tell strangers that she has purple shoes. Her toenails are purple and she gets sad when the paint chips off. The first time I painted toenails she didn't want to wear socks for like a month when before, she had always insisted on wearing them to bed because we had just bought her some new ones. She wraps random things around her like towels and blankets and says that she is a princess. I didn't even know she knew what a princess was. She's obsessed with Mickey Mouse. We have a picture of the Seattle temple hanging in our family room. Quinn looked at it the other day and pointed at the angel Moroni at the top and said "he can't get down... He needs a mouse-ka-tool." When things aren't working right or she needs help she tells us she needs a mouse-ka-tool. She loves bows and flowers. She likes to play in her pool in the backyard. I put her little toddler slide into the pool and she jumps off of it and lands on her butt in the water.
She appears to have gotten her dad's sense of direction. She knew we were at the doctor's office from the parking lot after only having been there one time. When we drive by it in the highway she tells us that that's the doctor. She saw a receipt from the hospital with the hospital logo on the top and she told me it was from the doctor. She also knows Walmart receipts are from Walmart. And that we are at Walmart. She loves McDonald's. She always asks for fries and chicken nuggets and water. I don't get her pop because I don't want that spilled in the car. And because I love that she loves water. She loves dinosaur chicken nuggets from Costco and so do I. I ate them for lunch today and they were delicious. I want to eat them every day but I don't.
She sees me working out and she tries to copy me and it's adorable and hilarious. She was doing burpees the other day and she said "this is fun!" She said the same thing when I was showing her how to stretch afterwards. Maybe we need to get out more😁 We definitely need to get out more, we never really go anywhere other than the doctor's office. In a few weeks I'm thinking that I'll get a gym membership it Kennewick. It's over 45 minutes away, but I'm thinking I'll go 2 times a week and then work out at home the other days. Then I can get back into shape and also get to know the staff there and hopefully get hired to teach again by the fall. Quinn will love going to the kids klub again. I hope. I loved taking her to the kids klub in Pocatello because I knew everyone there and I trusted them. It seems like a long way to drive for a workout but what else are we going to do? We get pretty bored being here all the time and it will be nice for all of us to get out of the house. I can't wait to go to a GGX class again. Maybe that seems weird to some if you but it's something that I love and I've discovered that I really miss it. A lot.
So here's to finding a new normal and learning some more patience. It will probably get harder with every kid. I really didn't think being a mom was hard when I only had Quinn except for the first few months and then again when I potty trained her. That sucked. That's another blog post though.
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